[lit-ideas] Re: The Serpent's Club
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 21:24:46 -0000
When I wrote that, JL, I had to jettison various versions like
>>>
when a man gets home from work,
she takes off his uniform
>>>
because they -- like yours -- made sense!
Judy Evans, Cardiff (UK)
judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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From: <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 8:48 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Serpent's Club
> In a message dated 3/14/2004 1:09:49 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> nantongo@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> Personal pronouns, on this list at least, seem to be like one of those
> diseases that simmer sinisterly away unseen for ages then periodically
erupt in
> boils and competitions to invent a neutral human pronoun in the singular
for the
> English language. Myself I thought Jorge Luis, aided and abetted by R.A.
Paul,
> had invented one the last time around, but no-one ever tells me anything
> around here.
> ----
> That was P. Junger, and the pronoun was 's/h/it'.
>
> Must say I loved J. Evans's example,
>
> >no-one who disagrees with you
> >points with approval to a usage like
>
> "when a man gets home from work,
> she takes off her uniform"
>
> >and says that legitimates errors now.
>
> Oddly, the reversal makes more sense to me:
>
> "When a woman gets home from work,
> he [that is, the woman's masculine lover]
> takes off her uniform."
>
> Cheers,
>
> JL
>
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